20. Harding, Collusion, 118.
21. Dana Priest, “Trump Adviser Michael T. Flynn on His Dinner with Putin and Why Russia Today Is Just Like CNN,” Washington Post, August 15, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/08/15/trump-adviser-michael-t-flynn-on-his-dinner-with-putin-and-why-russia-today-is-just-like-cnn/?utm_term=.ce89b012e887.
22. David E. Sanger, “Obama Strikes Back at Russia for Election Hacking,” New York Times, December 29, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/us/politics/russia-election-hacking-sanctions.html.
23. Patrick Reevell, “Timeline of the US and Russia Trading Diplomatic Blows,” ABC News, September 1, 2017, http://abcnews.go.com/International/timeline-us-russia-trading-diplomatic-blows/story?id=49564623.
24. John Kruzel, “Flynn’s Guilty Plea Confirms He Talked Russian Sanctions, Misled FBI,” Politifact, December 1, 2017, http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/dec/01/flynns-guilty-plea-confirms-he-talked-russian-sanc/.
25. The July 13, 2018, indictments by Robert Mueller describe how the GRU-connected hackers gave the e-mail to “Organization One,” which is WikiLeaks. US Department of Justice, “Grand Jury Indicts 12 Russian Intelligence Officers for Hacking Offenses Related to the 2016 Election,” news release, July 13, 2018, https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/grand-jury-indicts-12-russian-intelligence-officers-hacking-offenses-related-2016-election.
26. Robert D. Blackwill and Philip H. Gordon, Containing Russia, Council Special Report no. 80 (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, January 2018), 7, https://www.cfr.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/CSR80_BlackwillGordon_ContainingRussia.pdf.
27. “Interview with Austrian ORF Television Channel,” President of Russia website, June 4, 2018, http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/57675.
28. Blackwill and Gordon, Containing Russia, 8, https://www.cfr.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/CSR80_BlackwillGordon_ContainingRussia.pdf.
29. Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, The Red Web: The Kremlin’s War on the Internet (New York: PublicAffairs, 2017), chap. 16.
30. Huib Modderkolk, “Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference in US Elections,” De Volkskrant, January 25, 2018, https://www.volkskrant.nl/tech/dutch-agencies-provide-crucial-intel-about-russia-s-interference-in-us-elections~a4561913/.
31. Greg Miller, Ellen Nakashima, and Adam Entous, “Obama’s Secret Struggle to Punish Russia for Putin’s Election Assault,” Washington Post, June 23, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/national-security/obama-putin-election-hacking/?utm_term=.fa240cf45dc6.
32. Senior intelligence official in conversation with the author.
33. Louis Nelson, “Obama Says He Told Putin to ‘Cut It Out’ on Russia Hacking,” Politico, December 16, 2016, https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/obama-putin-232754.
34. Senior State Department official in conversation with the author.
35. David Corn, “A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump,” Mother Jones, October 31, 2016, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/veteran-spy-gave-fbi-info-alleging-russian-operation-cultivate-donald-trump/.
36. John Sipher, “A Second Look at the Steele Dossier,” Just Security, September 6, 2017, https://www.justsecurity.org/44697/steele-dossier-knowing/.
37. Harding, Collusion, 32.
38. Spencer S. Hsu, Devlin Barrett, and Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post , September 14, “Manafort will cooperate with Mueller as part of guilty plea, prosecutor says,” https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/manafort-plans-to-plead-guilty-to-second-set-of-charges/2018/09/14/a1541068-b5c9-11e8-a7b5-adaaa5b2a57f_story.html?utm_term=.3f5ec64c6c3d&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1.
39. Pew Research Center, Stark Partisan Divisions over Russia Probe, Including Its Importance to the Nation, December 7, 2017, http://www.people-press.org/2017/12/07/stark-partisan-divisions-over-russia-probe-including-its-importance-to-the-nation/.
40. “Meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club,” President of Russia website, October 19, 2017, http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/53151.
41. Andrew S. Weiss, “What Was Trump’s Russia Plan?” Wall Street Journal, December 8, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-was-trumps-russia-plan-1512752496.
42. Neil MacFarquhar, “Putin and Trump Talk on Phone and Agree to Improve Ties, Kremlin Says,” New York Times, November 14, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/world/europe/putin-calls-trump.html?mtrref=query.nytimes.com.
43. Craig Timberg, Rosalind S. Helderman, Andrew Roth, and Carol D. Leonnig, “In a Crowd at Trump’s Inauguration, Members of Russia’s Elite Anticipated a Thaw Between Moscow and Washington,” Washington Post, January 20, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/amid-trumps-inaugural-festivities-members-of-russias-elite-anticipated-a-thaw-between-moscow-and-washington/2018/01/20/0d767f46-fb9f-11e7-ad8c-ecbb62019393_story.html?utm_term=.e5d3bd913d3b.
44. Greg Miller and Greg Jaffe, “Trump Revealed Highly Classified Information to Russian Foreign Minister and Ambassador,” Washington Post, May 15, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?utm_term=.e446a9bb3fe7.
45. Roberta Rampton and Jeff Mason, Reuters, July 7, 2017, “Trump and Putin find chemistry, draw criticism in first meeting,” https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g20-germany-trump-putin-talks-idUSKBN19S24E.
46. Roberta Rampton and Jeff Mason, “Trump and Putin Find Chemistry, Draw Criticism in First Meeting,” Reuters, July 17, 2017, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g20-germany-trump-putin-talks/trump-and-putin-find-chemistry-draw-criticism-in-first-meeting-idUSKBN19S24E.
47. “News Conference Following the G20 Summit,” President of Russia website, July 8, 2017, http://www.en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/55017.
48. David A. Graham, “The Other Putin-Trump Meeting,” The Atlantic, July 18, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/trump-putin-second-meeting/534099/.
49. Office of the Spokesperson, “Joint Statement by the President of the United States and the President of the Russian Federation,” news release, US Department of State, November 11, 2017, https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2017/11/275459.htm.
50. “Meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club,” President of Russia website, October 19, 2017, http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/55882.
51. John Hudson, “Russia Sought a Broad Reset with Trump, Secret Document Shows,” BuzzFeed, September 12, 2017, https://www.buzzfeed.com/johnhudson/russia-sought-a-broad-reset-with-trump-secret-document-shows?utm_term=.ikqEoR1wZ0#.ov3WyZqaAN.
52. John Hudson, “Putin Spokesman Confirms Russia Offered a Reset with Trump,” BuzzFeed, September 13, 2017, https://www.buzzfeed.com/johnhudson/putin-spokesman-confirms-russia-reached-out-to-trump?utm_term=.hxVa8KdlqZ#.dnO6Pe3YOk.
53. Henry Foy, “‘We Need to Talk About Igor’: The Rise of Russia’s Most Powerful Oligarch,” Financial Times, March 1, 2018, https://www.ft.com/content/dc7d48f8-1c13-11e8-aaca-4574d7dabfb6.
54. John Hudson, “The Trump Administration Has a New Plan for Dealing with Russia,” BuzzFeed, June 19, 2017, https://www.buzzfeed.com/johnhudson/this-is-the-trump-administrations-plan-for-dealing-with?utm_term=.digvxJ512z#.ys2ZV3Ny7b.
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